Probably the first time I really got sad after hearing a musicians death, oddly enough as I was never a huge Prince fan (even though I liked some of his songs in my teens), until now, when his death made me look deeper at his music. For example I never knew that he was an extraordinary guitarist and multi instrumentalist. There is a 3 hour show uploaded on NTS Radio as a tribute to Prince, the guy was a born song writer, what can I say. Wondering what your thoughts are on the subject FSOL lovers.

- I never considered Prince as pop, not as pure pop anyway - he was always kinda funk/soul/pop guy to me - so to add to the thread's title - popular funk is certainly dead... The last hope stands with Jamioquai but they don't seem to do much in decades...

Prince did far more than paying Clyde Stubblefield's Medical Bills that were 80.000 dlrs. It turns out whatever he did he did it anonymously, respect to the man. Its funny what I thought of the man years ago and what I do know, I always thought of Prince as a weirdo gay pop singer. Now at my 37 I realize that the guy was a fucking genius, the bloody Linn LM-1 drummachine beat programmer

, the guitar virtuoso, the composer who could play and write any kind of music from classical, to funk and soul, to pop and rock, the singer, the frontman, the 15 year old producer and the list goes on. Bloody hell...

4:46 the smile on George Harrison's son while watching Prince nailing it on the solo for the song that his father wrote...priceless